Des classes dangereuses de la population dans grandes villes, et des moyens de les rendre meilleures. Ouvrage récompensé en 1838 par l’Institut de France

by Honoré-Antoine Frégier

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First edition

Paris: J.-B. Bailliére, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 , 435, 1 ; 4 , 527, 1 ; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; lightly rubbed and spotted; very good. H.-A. Frégier 1789-1860 was a French political economist and civil servant whose views on poverty and criminality were representative of prevailing opinion during the early 19th century. So great was the contemporary preoccupation with crime, poverty, and the connections

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